Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to
all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very
respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it.

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Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world
intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent
books, 'Hegemony
or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States. '" [Holds up book, waves it in front of General
Assembly.] "It's an excellent book to help us understand what
has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and
what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our
planet.

The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at
risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn
you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United
States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword
hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book,
but, for the sake of time," [flips through the pages, which are
numerous] "I will just leave it as a recommendation.

It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame
[President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in
Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who
should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United
States, because their threat is right in their own house.

The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is
right in the house.

"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came
here. Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur
still today.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the
president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as
the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly.
As the owner of the world.

I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's
statement made by the president of the United States. As the
spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try
to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and
pillage of the peoples of the world.

An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would
even propose a title: "The Devil's Recipe."

As Chomsky says here, clearly and in depth, the American empire
is doing all it can to consolidate its system of domination. And
we cannot allow them to do that. We cannot allow world
dictatorship to be consolidated.

The world parent's statement -- cynical, hypocritical, full of
this imperial hypocrisy from the need they have to control
everything.

They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that's
their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and,
I would say, a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons
and bombs and firing weapons.

What a strange democracy. Aristotle might not recognize it or
others who are at the root of democracy.

What type of democracy do you impose with marines and bombs?

The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right
here, in this room, and I'm quoting, "Anywhere you look, you
hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover
your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom."

Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he
looks at your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo
Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an
extremist to him.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are
extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all
over. And people are standing up.

I have the feeling, dear world dictator, that you are going to
live the rest of your days as a nightmare because the rest of us
are standing up, all those who are rising up against American
imperialism, who are shouting for equality, for respect, for the
sovereignty of nations.

Yes, you can call us extremists, but we are rising up against
the empire, against the model of domination.

The president then -- and this he said himself, he said: "I have
come to speak directly to the populations in the Middle East, to
tell them that my country wants peace."

That's true. If we walk in the streets of the Bronx, if we walk
around New York, Washington, San Diego, in any city, San
Antonio, San Francisco, and we ask individuals, the citizens of
the United States, what does this country want? Does it want
peace? They'll say yes.

But the government doesn't want peace. The government of the
United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system
of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war.

It wants peace. But what's happening in Iraq? What happened in
Lebanon? In Palestine? What's happening? What's happened over
the last 100 years in Latin America and in the world? And now
threatening Venezuela -- new threats against Venezuela, against
Iran?

He spoke to the people of Lebanon. Many of you, he said, have
seen how your homes and communities were caught in the
crossfire. How cynical can you get? What a capacity to lie
shamefacedly. The bombs in Beirut with millimetric precision?

This is crossfire? He's thinking of a western, when people would
shoot from the hip and somebody would be caught in the
crossfire.

This is imperialist, fascist, assassin, genocidal, the empire
and Israel firing on the people of Palestine and Lebanon. That
is what happened. And now we hear, "We're suffering because we
see homes destroyed.'

The president of the United States came to talk to the peoples
-- to the peoples of the world. He came to say -- I brought some
documents with me, because this morning I was reading some
statements, and I see that he talked to the people of
Afghanistan, the people of Lebanon, the people of Iran. And he
addressed all these peoples directly.

And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States
addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples
of the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would
they have to say?

And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the
south, the oppressed people think. They would say, "Yankee
imperialist, go home." I think that is what those people would
say if they were given the microphone and if they could speak
with one voice to the American imperialists.

And that is why, Madam President, my colleagues, my friends,
last year we came here to this same hall as we have been doing
for the past eight years, and we said something that has now
been confirmed -- fully, fully confirmed.

I don't think anybody in this room could defend the system.
Let's accept -- let's be honest. The U.N. system, born after the
Second World War, collapsed. It's worthless.

Oh, yes, it's good to bring us together once a year, see each
other, make statements and prepare all kinds of long documents,
and listen to good speeches, like Abel's yesterday, or President
Mullah's . Yes, it's good for that.

And there are a lot of speeches, and we've heard lots from the
president of Sri Lanka, for instance, and the president of
Chile.

But we, the assembly, have been turned into a merely
deliberative organ. We have no power, no power to make any
impact on the terrible situation in the world. And that is why
Venezuela once again proposes, here, today, 20 September, that
we re-establish the United Nations.

Last year, Madam, we made four modest proposals that we felt to
be crucially important. We have to assume the responsibility our
heads of state, our ambassadors, our representatives, and we
have to discuss it.

The first is expansion, and Mullah talked about this yesterday
right here. The Security Council, both as it has permanent and
non-permanent categories, (inaudible) developing countries and
LDCs must be given access as new permanent members. That's step
one.

Point three, the immediate suppression -- and that is something
everyone's calling for -- of the anti-democratic mechanism known
as the veto, the veto on decisions of the Security Council.

Let me give you a recent example. The immoral veto of the United
States allowed the Israelis, with impunity, to destroy Lebanon.
Right in front of all of us as we stood there watching, a
resolution in the council was prevented.

Fourthly, we have to strengthen, as we've always said, the role
and the powers of the secretary general of the United Nations.

Yesterday, the secretary general practically gave us his speech
of farewell. And he recognized that over the last 10 years,
things have just gotten more complicated; hunger, poverty,
violence, human rights violations have just worsened. That is
the tremendous consequence of the collapse of the United Nations
system and American hegemonistic pretensions.

Madam, Venezuela a few years ago decided to wage this battle
within the United Nations by recognizing the United Nations, as
members of it that we are, and lending it our voice, our
thinking.

Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and
the search for peace and the reformulation of the international
system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic
forces on the planet.

This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has
sought a nonpermanent seat on the Security Council.

Let's see. Well, there's been an open attack by the U.S.
government, an immoral attack, to try and prevent Venezuela from
being freely elected to a post in the Security Council.

The imperium is afraid of truth, is afraid of independent
voices. It calls us extremists, but they are the extremists.

And I would like to thank all the countries that have kindly
announced their support for Venezuela, even though the ballot is
a secret one and there's no need to announce things.

But since the imperium has attacked, openly, they strengthened
the convictions of many countries. And their support strengthens
us.

Mercosur, as a bloc, has expressed its support, our brothers in
Mercosur. Venezuela, with Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay,
is a full member of Mercosur.

And many other Latin American countries, CARICOM, Bolivia have
expressed their support for Venezuela. The Arab League, the full
Arab League has voiced its support. And I am immensely grateful
to the Arab world, to our Arab brothers, our Caribbean brothers,
the African Union. Almost all of Africa has expressed its
support for Venezuela and countries such as Russia or China and
many others.

I thank you all warmly on behalf of Venezuela, on behalf of our
people, and on behalf of the truth, because Venezuela, with a
seat on the Security Council, will be expressing not only
Venezuela's thoughts, but it will also be the voice of all the
peoples of the world, and we will defend dignity and truth.

Over and above all of this, Madam President, I think there are
reasons to be optimistic. A poet would have said "helplessly
optimistic," because over and above the wars and the bombs and
the aggressive and the preventive war and the destruction of
entire peoples, one can see that a new era is dawning.

As Sylvia Rodriguez says, the era is giving birth to a heart.
There are alternative ways of thinking. There are young people
who think differently. And this has already been seen within the
space of a mere decade. It was shown that the end of history was
a totally false assumption, and the same was shown about Pax
Americana and the establishment of the capitalist neo-liberal
world. It has been shown, this system, to generate mere poverty.
Who believes in it now?

What we now have to do is define the future of the world. Dawn
is breaking out all over. You can see it in Africa and Europe
and Latin America and Oceanea. I want to emphasize that
optimistic vision.

We have to strengthen ourselves, our will to do battle, our
awareness. We have to build a new and better world.

Venezuela joins that struggle, and that's why we are threatened.
The U.S. has already planned, financed and set in motion a coup
in Venezuela, and it continues to support coup attempts in
Venezuela and elsewhere.

President Michelle Bachelet reminded us just a moment ago of the
horrendous assassination of the former foreign minister, Orlando
Letelier.

And I would just add one thing: Those who perpetrated this crime
are free. And that other event where an American citizen also
died were American themselves. They were CIA killers,
terrorists.

And we must recall in this room that in just a few days there
will be another anniversary. Thirty years will have passed from
this other horrendous terrorist attack on the Cuban plane, where
73 innocents died, a Cubana de Aviacion airliner.

And where is the biggest terrorist of this continent who took
the responsibility for blowing up the plane? He spent a few
years in jail in Venezuela. Thanks to CIA and then government
officials, he was allowed to escape, and he lives here in this
country, protected by the government.

And he was convicted. He has confessed to his crime. But the
U.S. government has double standards. It protects terrorism when
it wants to.

And this is to say that Venezuela is fully committed to
combating terrorism and violence. And we are one of the people
who are fighting for peace.

Luis Posada Carriles is the name of that terrorist who is
protected here. And other tremendously corrupt people who
escaped from Venezuela are also living here under protection: a
group that bombed various embassies, that assassinated people
during the coup. They kidnapped me and they were going to kill
me, but I think God reached down and our people came out into
the streets and the army was too, and so I'm here today.

But these people who led that coup are here today in this
country protected by the American government. And I accuse the
American government of protecting terrorists and of having a
completely cynical discourse.

We mentioned Cuba. Yes, we were just there a few days ago. We
just came from there happily.

And there you see another era born. The Summit of the 15, the
Summit of the Nonaligned, adopted a historic resolution. This is
the outcome document. Don't worry, I'm not going to read it.

But you have a whole set of resolutions here that were adopted
after open debate in a transparent matter -- more than 50 heads
of state. Havana was the capital of the south for a few weeks,
and we have now launched, once again, the group of the
nonaligned with new momentum.

And if there is anything I could ask all of you here, my
companions, my brothers and sisters, it is to please lend your
good will to lend momentum to the Nonaligned Movement for the
birth of the new era, to prevent hegemony and prevent further
advances of imperialism.

And as you know, Fidel Castro is the president of the nonaligned
for the next three years, and we can trust him to lead the
charge very efficiently.

Unfortunately they thought, "Oh, Fidel was going to die." But
they're going to be disappointed because he didn't. And he's not
only alive, he's back in his green fatigues, and he's now
presiding the nonaligned.

So, my dear colleagues, Madam President, a new, strong movement
has been born, a movement of the south. We are men and women of
the south.

With this document, with these ideas, with these criticisms, I'm
now closing my file. I'm taking the book with me. And, don't
forget, I'm recommending it very warmly and very humbly to all
of you.

We want ideas to save our planet, to save the planet from the
imperialist threat. And hopefully in this very century, in not
too long a time, we will see this, we will see this new era, and
for our children and our grandchildren a world of peace based on
the fundamental principles of the United Nations, but a renewed
United Nations.

And maybe we have to change location. Maybe we have to put the
United Nations somewhere else; maybe a city of the south. We've
proposed Venezuela.

You know that my personal doctor had to stay in the plane. The
chief of security had to be left in a locked plane. Neither of
these gentlemen was allowed to arrive and attend the U.N.
meeting. This is another abuse and another abuse of power on the
part of the Devil. It smells of sulfur here, but God is with us
and I embrace you all.

May God bless us all. Good day to you.

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